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The oldest known organic compound is
Answer: C
Acetic acid is the oldest known organic compound.
Vinegar, a dilute solution of it, has been made by fermenting wine since antiquity, and Jabir ibn Hayyan concentrated it by distillation in the eighth century. Urea is significant for a different reason - Wöhler's 1828 synthesis of it was the first laboratory preparation of an organic compound from inorganic material.
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